Nicholas Kolakowski

EMC is expanding its presence in the cloud with a new portfolio of infrastructure services and applications. As part of that effort, the company will offer ways for customers to accelerate a move to desktop as a service (DaaS) and better incorporate mobile technologies. This is just the latest in a series of fairly big […]

Microsoft may have engineered Windows 8 to work on tablets, but it will still need sales of the upcoming operating system on traditional PCs if it wants to maintain the Windows division€™s profits and margins. Based on new numbers released by research firm IDC, it seems that worldwide PC shipment growth for 2011 was anemic […]

Hewlett-Packard€™s decision to consolidate its printing and personal computer divisions under veteran manager Todd Bradley is possibly the beginning of some very big things, according to analysts. At the very least, the move will offer HP some bottom-line savings; it could also set the company up for a more radical move, such as spinning off […]

Apple€™s new iPad operates at higher temperatures than the iPad 2 when running a processor-intensive game, according to a new test by Consumer Reports. The watchdog group aimed a thermal imaging camera at a new iPad playing Infinity Blade II, and recorded temperatures €œas high as 116 degrees Fahrenheit.€ Ambient temperature in the room was […]

Apple could sell 66 million iPads this year, buoyed by strong interest in its newest version, according to Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray. €œDue to the strong launch, we are raising our [calendar year 2012] iPad estimates from 60 [million] to 66 [million],€ Munster wrote in a March 20 research note. €œWe believe […]

Microsoft€™s upcoming Outlook 15 will offer a variety of tweaks to the interface, according to a March 20 posting on Paul Thurrott€™s Supersite for Windows. For starters, Outlook 15 will offer native integration of Hotmail, along with social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Another new feature, Peeks, will offer more information about Outlook items […]

Microsoft will release Windows 8 in October, according to a new Bloomberg report. That report, which cited unnamed sources with €œknowledge of the schedule,€ suggested that the next-generation operating system will appear on devices with competing Intel and ARM chipsets. While Intel€™s products continue to handily dominate the traditional PC space, ARM processors run a […]

Apple claims it has sold 3 million new iPads since the next-generation tablet€™s March 16 release. That comes within hours of Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing during a March 19 conference call that the new iPad had sold in €œrecord€ numbers. AT&T also reported that it set a single-day record for iPad sales and activations […]

Apple has finally decided what to do with its $100 billion cash reserve. During a call with financial analysts, company executives detailed a new stock repurchasing and dividend program that will reward shareholders. This plan kicks off July 1, with a quarterly dividend payment scheduled for the company€™s fiscal fourth quarter of 2012. After that, […]

Microsoft is asking customers to deploy a patch for a “critical” bulletin from last week€™s Patch Tuesday, after the public appearance of proof-of-concept code that apparently targets the vulnerability. That critical bulletin, MS12-020 (Windows) addresses an issue in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). While Microsoft insisted in a March 13 posting on the Microsoft Security Response […]

Dell wants to pull an Apple in the tablet market. €œWe have a road map for tablets that we haven€™t announced yet,€ Dell chief commercial officer Steve Felice told Reuters March 16. €œWe don€™t think that this market is closed off in any way.€ Those announcements will apparently come in the second half of 2012, […]

Microsoft had a fairly quiet week, marked by Patch Tuesday and additional indications that Windows 8 tablets are in development. While Microsoft’s March 2012 Patch Tuesday was light on actual bulletins€”with six in total€”security researchers nonetheless advised companies to fix the only “critical” one as fast as possible. That critical bulletin, MS12-020 (Windows), addresses an […]